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"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Monday, 2 February 2015

Pretty Polly !

The Hunstanton and Holme shore today was littered with razor shells, dead crabs and vast amounts of hornwrack following the strong onshore winds of the weekend. Unsuprisingly, it was frequented by a large number of gulls, including an adult Mediterranean Gull wearing a lime green darvic. Amongst the flotsam and jetsam were hundreds of conical sand tubes, made by the Polychaete Pectinaria koreni.
Tubes of Pectinaria koreni, Holme NWT, 2nd February 2015

Tubes of Pectinaria koreni, Holme NWT, 2nd February 2015

This photograph shows a live Pectinaria koreni, taken on the shore at Hunstanton on 6th April 2012